St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-06
The New York Central Labor Union
Passes Resolutions in Denunciation
Of Editor 0'Brien,
Who Receives Large Number of Tele-
grams Cengratulaiing Him for the
Stand he Took.
The Irish Journalist Takes Occasion to
Give Full Explanation Of His
Position,
DR.. McGlynn Says Lansdowne Is Only
Small Percentage More Land
lord Than 0'Brien.

NEW YORK, June 5.-A stormy Ses-
sion of the Central Labor union was
held to-day. John McMackin made an
address, denouncing Editor O'Brien for
his action in refusing to attend the mass
meeting last night. McMackin declared
he wouldn't lower the flag at the COM
mand of ecclesiastical power or corrupt
politicians. If Catholics were to be
controlled by foreign power there
would be good cause for the sneer that
they were not citizens. Resolutions were
adopted denOuncing Editor O'Brien for
his action. Mr.. O'Brien has received
numerous kilograms cOngratulating him
on the course he took in regard to the
parade last night. Being interviewed
to-day he said: 81 am not surprised
that gentlemen, not of the Irish race,
are not able to understand the difficult
ties by which our case is surrounded at
this moment, but | have not the smallest
apprehension that the Irish National
lists will misunderstood my action. They
know how many malignant enemies are
watching every word or act of ours in
order to torture them into weapons
against
GLADSTON EAND PARNELL.
l am satisfied that they will feel also
that L have acted under painful and
solemn sense of responsibility to our
great leader ParnelD, and from the con-
victiOn that any other course would
have brought the utter destruction of
our movement at the moment when the
opinions of millions of English people
are trembling in the balance and when
the most INSCRIPTIONS devices are
being thrown into the bal
ance against us. l was astonished
to see it stated from the platform of
Union square that / had. scored out a
resolution referring to DIR. McGlynn as
a matter of fact. No such resolution
was ever submitted to me. The resolu-
ton submitted to me by the committee
contained no alfusion direct OF indirect
to DR.. McGlynn's case. The resolution
read from the stand was never
i'll any manner communicated to
me. The only reference to DR..
McGlynn throughout the whole course
of the communication between the COM
mittee and myself was the statement
that DR.. McGlynn was to be present and
speak, and l need not say that to that
arrangement had not the smallest OBJ
lection to offer. have, therefore. now
to complain both that this resolution
was kept from my cOgniZance and that
the people should have been put under
the utterly false impression that | had
seen and erased it. | find it difficult to
deal seriously with the suggestion that
] could be guilty of
ANY INSULT TO LABOR.
My life has been one of as hard toll
and anxious cares as / think fall into
the lot of most men. think can claim
that most of its energies have been
spent in the service of the poor and of
the workers. As to the insulting sug-
many Hall or other American poll
ticians, l can only say that if
any American politicians had been
guilty of the remoteSt attempt to
influence my judgment in the direction
OF serving American party interests,
should have known how to resent it.
should have resisted any attempt to
compromise our cause in the interest of
any other political section in America at
least as warmly as / felt obliged to re-
sist the attempt to identify us with the
particular organization by which the
labor party was conducted. / came here
on purely Irish business. | found that
on one point all American parties seem
to be agreed, namely that Ireland should
be rescued from its present misery and
mismanagement.' l should have most
gladly welcomed expressions of SYM
pathy from every influential body of
Americans as long as their action re-
ferred to the Irish cause alone, but out
side those limits | have and shall al
ways decline to travel.
The suggestion that the archbishop
communicated with me on the subject
/ regard as insulting to him and to me
and scarcely worthy of a denial Oh my
part. McGlynn spoke to three times
III my life, and certainly not on this
subject.
NEARLY FORTY THOUSAND
people attended the meeting of the Anti
Poverty society in the Academy of
Music this evening. Rev. McGlynn
was the principal speaker. During
the course of his remarks he
said: 'It was great mistake for the
advisors of Mr.. O'Brien to kee him from
appearing ON the same platform with
McMackin. Mr.. O'Brien probably
didn't know who John McMackin
was, but he knows to-day. Be-
cause John McMackin believes in
free speech he appeared at Cooper
union with Mr.. lyman. Mr.. McMackin
may not have been acquainted with the
deed with which lyman is said to have
been convicted. Iknow nothing about
IL ana QOn'C care about the resolutions.
All the press of to-day have fallen into
EGREGIOUS ERROR.
They have mixed me up with the res
olutions. was not in the original res
Olution about coercion which Mr.
O'Brien blue-penciled. What Mr..
OBrien ought to be ashamed of was
the penciling of the resolu-
tion that the land belongs to the
people. Mr. O'Brien is a landlord
at heart himself. 1t is only question
OF small percentage between Mr..
O'Brien and Lord Lansdowne. That
resolution about coercion, about Italy
and other countries got in partly through
O'Brien himself. When our friends
discovered that they could do nothing
with Mr.. O'Brien they determined to
go in and give him dose of coercion
about it. They said they were going to
send their own greeting to Ire
land and not what O'Brien
thought. We thought the coercion
clause would displease Mr.. O'Brien and
some of his advisers" John McMackin
made speech in which he said he had
only contempt for P man who would
urge good men to acts of violence. Cor
ruption must be wiped out, and the